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Table 1 Statistics for the characteristics of respondents

From: Socio-economic inequalities in health service utilization among Chinese rural migrant workers with New Cooperative Medical Scheme: a multilevel regression approach

Variables

Number/Mean

Percentage/SD

Outcome Variables

 Two-week outpatient

  Yes

210

6.32

  No

3112

93.68

 Inpatient probability

  Yes

196

5.90

  No

3126

94.10

Individual characteristics

 Age group

  15 ~ 36

1303

39.22

  36 ~ 50

1199

36.09

  50 ~ 64

820

24.68

 Gender

  Men

1910

57.50

  Women

1412

42.50

 Living arrangement

  Live with spouse

500

15.05

  Live without spouse

2822

84.95

 Educational attainment

  Below primary school

923

27.78

  Primary school

1619

48.74

  Middle school and above

780

23.48

 Technical certificate

  Yes

422

12.70

  No

2900

87.30

 Type of industry

  Professional technician/Clerical staff

248

7.47

  Service stuff

1177

35.43

  Manufacturing and construction

1041

31.34

  Freelancer

856

25.77

 Type of unit

  Party/government/state-owned

300

9.03

  Collective enterprises and institutions

1327

39.95

  Self-employed and freelance

1695

51.02

 Working hours

  Moderate labor

1471

44.28

  Excessive labor

1851

55.72

 Place of work

  In the county/district

2721

81.91

  Across the county/district

601

18.09

  Income quintiles

664

19.99

  Poorest

665

20.02

  Poorer

664

19.99

  Middle

665

20.02

  Richer

664

19.99

  Richest

664

19.99

 Injury insurance

  Yes

  

  No

293

8.82

  number of friends

3029

91.18

  <  = 5

  

  6 ~ 10

1904

57.31

   >  = 11

811

24.41

  SAH

607

18.27

 Good

  Fair

2285

68.78

  Poor

837

25.20

health behavior

 Smoke

  Yes

1192

35.88

  No

2130

64.12

 Alcohol use

  Yes

831

25.02

  No

2491

74.98

 Regular exercise every month

  Yes

818

24.62

  No

2504

75.38

Health outcome

 Sense of happiness

  Unhappy

  Fair

215

6.47

  Happy

1014

30.52

Contextual characteristic

 Proportion of ethnic minorities

1.000

0.006

 Per capita in the community

1.000

2.02 × 10–4

 Region

  East

2074

62.43

  Middle

639

19.24

  West

609

18.33

 City level

  Sub-provincial city and above

570

17.16

  Other

2752

82.84

  Number of medical institutions for 10,000 people in the community

5.60

18.48

  Number of medical institutions for 10,000 people in the city

2601.65

4597.18

  Number of doctors for 10,000 people in the city

7.48

12.24

  Number of beds for 10,000 people in the city

0.70

1.33

  Health index of the community

54.34

19.24

  Service quality index of the community

83.94

44.33

  Urban service quality index

-0.05

0.64

  Intercept

0.07

0.24

  1. SD standard deviation
  2. Reference levels in the regressions